Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Sydney Pre-Event - Day 2

Song of the Day: What the World Needs Now
is Love - Burt Bacharach (I think everyone who went to Milson's Point got this stuck in their head at some point.)

This morning was great. Slow and
relaxing. I was hanging out with the Berlin Crüe that I am staying
will at the empty flat. We went out for brunch and just sat around
talking for a while. They are really cool. It made me really want to visit Berlin.

Around noon I headed out for Milson's
point. That is under the north side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. When
I arrived there were only five other people there. Slowly the group
started to trickle in. Eventually we had about seventy bike
messengers hanging out.

The Sydney Bike Messenger Association
started the Pre-Event competition there. At registration we had all been assigned a team. Bogans, Westies, or Yabbos. (The Sydney guys told us this was a bit like "redneck" or "hick".) I was on the Yabbos. We had team foot down. Then individual
foot down. Next was telling jokes while doing a track stand. Teams
were awarded points for jokes told while track standing. Finally was
the skid contest disaster. It was all pretty fun to watch.

It was also a great place to be. I keep
saying how beautiful Sydney is. I can't

express that enough. From the
park under the bridge you could see the city and the opera house. The
sun was out. The trees were green. It felt good just to be alive.

After that one of the girls invited
some of us over to Joe's place since it had a pool, a hot tub, and a
sauna. Now that is a good way to relax at the end of a day. We did
kinda screw up when leaving the pool though. Apparently when the
elevator says that it only takes 14 people, 17 people is actually too
many. It kinda broke after we were in it. It was stuck and wouldn't
go. The elevator company had to be called to reset it. Whoops. Oh well. It was too late to whine about
it. So we left for the after event party. It was at a warehouse in
southwest Sydney. I spent most of the night dancing around with the
Berlin Crüe.